Forget NCAA hoops, the NCAA hockey playoffs start tomorrow. Of course, if you feel the urge to fill out a tiered form filled with teams you may have heard of while watching ESPN in a late-night stupor, check out the Sun Dukes online bracket, courtesy of one of our work-sponsored teams. [...]
Archive of entries posted on March 2008
Puke Through My Nose
One of my college friends had a variety of ways of expressing disgust, typically involving creative uses of other people’s body parts. My favorite, after nearly three decades, is that he was so disgusted with something that he would “puke through his nose.” That searing, burning, horrendous, watching-garbage-trucks-collide with nothing you [...]
Getting the “H” Out Of Yahoo
The hullabaloo, hoopla, hearsay and hand-wringing over the Microsoft-Yahoo deal has me more than mildly amused, and not just because it would fill the H-stanza in King Crimson’s (entirely appropriate) Elephant Talk. Somehow, Google thinks that the deal will damage the internet in some way that having opaque code that colors [...]
Jodi Picoult’s Change of Heart and Other Voodoo
Finished Jodi Picoult’s latest novel, Change of Heart, this week. As disappointed as I was with her two previous works, this one is a definite top-three list nominee. It is as rich and detailed as My Sister’s Keeper, but rather than what felt like forced literary devices or a plot that rushed to get [...]
Stars & Stripes Forever
I’ve loved sailing and sailboats since the early 1970s, when my family would spend Sunday afternoons tooling around the Shrewsbury river in our day sailer. My father and I crewed for one of his friends on a 30-foot boat, competing in a summer race series that taught me (at the age of 12) [...]
Princeton: ECAC Champs!
Princeton University’s mens ice hockey team won the ECAC Championship last night, defeating Harvard (again! glee!) 4-1 to earn a spot to the NCAA playoffs. This season held so many highlights it’s hard to enumerate:
After being left in the dust by Notre Dame in a pair of home humblings, the Tigers bounced [...]
Memorable Hockey
I’m starting to think that there’s some sort of conversation of hockey momentum that I must share between my three favorite teams: the youth Devils, the Tigers, and the NHL Devils. As the Tigers clawed, the Devils thawed, and our youth Devils skated furiously into the semi-finals of our season-ending tournament, only to [...]
One Shot Wonder
I’ve been playing in Hockey North America for five seasons. More accurately, I’ve played four full seasons and one season that was reduced to a single game due to a broken leg. In each of my close-to-full seasons, I’ve been a one-shot wonder, scoring exactly one goal a season, much like [...]
Locus Magazine Recommended Reading for 2007
Every year Locus magazine, the trade journal for science fiction and fantasy writers, puts out a recommended reading list. I usually end up reading about half of it, sometimes based on re-inforcements from sources like Cory Doctorow (himself a frequent name dropped on the list), BoingBoing or a nod from another author whose [...]
Everything I Need To Know I Learned In Wind Ensemble
Today was one of those “If you can read this, thank a teacher” kind of days. After blogging about the harmonic convergence of a high school band performance and my trip to Korea, I decided to track down Mr. Santoro (my high school band director); turns out he teaches at a school not far from [...]
